2. Typical Business Challenges
How much does it cost me to have my IT environment
off-line, and how quickly does my disaster recovery
failover IT environment come on-line?
How can I implement an affordable
disaster recovery plan without capital
expenditure, and not overloading my
IT staff?
Does my disaster recovery plan adequately protect
my servers data and applications from man-made
and natural disasters?
Does the location of my disaster recovery
servers provide enough geographic diversity to
protect me from a widespread disaster?
How can I squeeze the maximum amount of
useful life out of may CAPEX investments with
out the risk of outages?
What happens when my aging servers reach
end of life and need repairs or replacements?
3. Can You afford a Disaster?
Organizations have experienced application and data loss
over the past year4
100%
Forty-three percent of companies that experience a major
data loss do not reopen143%
80%
Companies are out of business within two years of
experiencing a major data loss351%
Companies that do not rebound from a data loss within one
month are likely to go out of business in the near future2
Sources: 1. DTI/Price Waterhouse Coopers 2. Bernstein Crisis Management 3.
University of Texas Center for Research on Information Systems)
4. CA Technologies survey 12/2011
Cause of lost data was IT systems failure4
78%
4. Super Storm Sandy had Widespread Impact
• 650,000 houses destroyed or damaged
• 8.5 million without power for weeks
• Severe damage to businesses in NJ
• 19,000 NJ businesses sustained
damage of $250K or more
• Total business losses at $8.3 billion
Disasters Strike without Warning
Source: Tropical Cyclone Report Hurricane
Sandy (AL182012)
5. More Frequent Extreme Hurricane surges in the future1
• Frequency to increase 10 times
in coming decades
• Chance of Katrina magnitude
hurricanes have doubled
1: Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences: 3/18/13
• 2013 forecast: 18 Tropical
Storms – 9 will become
Hurricanes
• Typical year has 12 Tropical
Storms, 7 are Hurricanes
2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season2
2: Colorado State University – Tropical
Meteorology Project, April 2013
6. Operational Outages a Greater Threat
A regional disasters is only one type of event that impacts
downtime
IDC Business Continuity Study
•The greatest threats came from power outages, security, and
telecommunications failures
•Near majority had to initiate an application or data recovery in past
12 months
•Only 10% had to activate a data center recovery
•Only 6% experienced a facility loss.
Source: IDC, The State of Business Continuity in End-User Environments in 2011, doc
#227783; April, 2011"
7. Disaster recovery of your data, applications and operating systems. An affordable cloud based
server that replicates your primary server environment and can be quickly scaled to fully
replace your primary servers to get your business back up and running.
An Affordable Solution
8. Take advantage of the Cloud
• Disaster recovery protection of data, applications and operating systems
• Continuous real-time replication
• Supports multiple IT environments - physical and virtual servers
• Minimal expense for replication server environment, no CAPEX
• Pre-configure failover environment – only pay for full resources if needed
• Geographic diversity in the event of a widespread disaster
• Recovery from any outage though a single console
Your data is secure in EarthLink Data Centers
• SSAE 16 compliant data centers and certified security staff
Cloud Disaster Recovery
9. Cloud Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery protection
• Protection from man-made accidents, power outages, natural disasters,
and server crashes
• Failovers executed in less than 4 hours
• Includes Platinum level of Managed Services
• Provides customized email event notification
• Flexible post recovery options:
– Maintain the Cloud Hosted failover as new ongoing source platform
– Reestablish on-site as new failover, backing up the new Cloud Hosted platform
– Revert to original DR configuration – migrate data to new on-site servers, scale back Cloud
Hosting to replication only
10. Cloud Disaster Recovery
Continuous data, application and OS replication
• Replication and failover that continuously captures byte-level changes
as they occur
• Worry Free replication – automated and transparent (non-disruptive)
– Applications remain online and users stay productive
11. Cloud Disaster Recovery
Replication server requires minimal resources
• Affordable disaster recovery protection
• Use existing WAN connections
• No CAPEX investments required
• Purchase minimum of 1 vCPU with 2GB RAM for replication
• Purchase enough storage capacity to support source server capacity
• Specify full configuration of virtual resources that will be spun-up in event
of a failover – only pay for full configuration for period activated
• Ability to revert from failover to primary servers post event
12. Cloud Disaster Recovery
Support for multiple IT environments
• Hardware and application independent – supporting any HW/SW
configuration
• Application-level or full-server failover options
• Protects leading software apps: Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint,
and more
• MS Windows 2003 and 2008 R2 certified
• Protects both physical and virtual servers
• Platinum level of managed services included for full support
14. Delivers value to your business:
• Protecting your mission-critical data applications and OS
• Rapid recovery of your IT Environment
• Minimal IT expenses
Editor's Notes
The effects of data loss for business are significant Forty-three percent of companies that experience a major data loss do not reopen (DTI/Price Waterhouse Coopers) Eighty percent of companies that do not rebound from a data loss within one month are likely to go out of business in the near future (Bernstein Crisis Management) Fifty-one percent of companies are out of business within two years of experiencing a major data loss (University of Texas Center for Research on Information Systems)
Katrina was a Category 5 storm packing winds estimated at 175 mph
4 hour RTO – Recovery Time Objective
Worry Free replication – automated and transparent (non-disruptive) Captures disk-writes at host’s file systems layer while all applications operate above the actual file system layer. This allows the solution to transparently and reliably protect that data by replicating to the target server. Target server applies file update commands to replicated files. All file additions and deletions are replicated as well. Open-file mirroring and replication: processes and replicates open files without taking them offline; applications remain online and users stay productive.
Not all Cloud providers deliver the same capabilities. When comparing EarthLink too some of the other leading providers a number of competitive advantages become obvious. Listed here are the most notable: 1) Next Generation Cloud Platform powered by Industry leading technologies 2) Geographic diversity when selecting data center locations 3) Private MPLS network for best network performance and reliability
